Razvan-Adrian Pandea

A passionate grower of cacti of Mures County, Cristian Sergiu Gavriloaie, who owns, in Ideciu de Jos, a greenhouse with over 4,000 cacti from 1,800 different species, intends, at some point, to open a botanical garden that could be freely visited and where correctly acclimatized cacti could be acquired.

Two airplanes belonging to the British Royal Air Force executed on Tuesday an air police mission in international airspace over the Black Sea, to intercept an aircraft of the Russian Federation.

As many as 13,444 vaccine doses from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson were administered in the last 24 hours, of which 9,161 represent the first dose, and 4,283 the second dose, according to a briefing sent on Tuesday by Romania's National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV).

The average data transfer speed over broadband has increased by approximately 25 pct in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a release sent on Tuesday by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM).

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Lucian Bode, stated, on Monday, that the participation of Romania in the extinguishing of the fires in Greece, through the efforts of the firemen, strengthened even more the bonds of friendship between the two states.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) asked, on Monday, the Government to say how much it has spent on the anti-COVID-19 vaccines and said they believe the statement of Health Minister Ioana Mihaila, that such information is "confidential", is unacceptable, given that it regards public spending.

The chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban, stated on Thursday that the revelation appearing in the public space about the episode regarding Prime Minister Florin Citu's conviction in the USA in 2000 for a DUI affects the image of the party. "It's normal that it affects us. We should have fly masks to pretend it doesn't affect us. I am profoundly hurt.

For the first time, Romania's national team in debating for students, coordinated by the Romanian Association for Debate, Oratory and Rhetoric (ARDOR) has ranked in the first eight of the 74 teams in the world, at the World Schools Debate Championship, taking place online between July 25 and August 5.

The final electrical energy consumption rose by 7 pct in the first six months of this year, compared to the similar period of last year, on the backdrop of an 8.3 pct increase in the consumption of the population, according to data from the National Institute for Statistics (INS) published on Thursday.

Eight deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, informs, on Wednesday, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS). According to the GCS, the dead are six men and two women admitted to hospitals in Bacau, Caras-Severin, Galati, Prahova, Suceava, Sibiu, Teleorman counties and the City of Bucharest.